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Chairman who is leading the impeachment inquiry determine relevancy for lack of a better word defense witnesses is flawed? >> yeah. so this was the exact same process that took place in the clinton impeachment. the same process in the nixon impeachment which is the minority gets the right to request witnesses. if they're relevant, they will be accepted. it's hard to know what to do otherwise in an environment where people are bringing all kinds of extraneous conspiracy theorys to explain what's going on. >> to quote you back to you because i want to use the best sources i can. when you quoted ...

These articles of impeachment, isn't the minority hearing day now irrelevant? >> i believe it is and i believe that's the concern that many of us have who institutionally love this place. >> okay. mr. raskin, even if chairman nadler didn't believe chairman nadler didn't believe the house rules required him to schedule the minority hearing a day prior to marking up the articles of impeachment, as a member of judiciary and rules committee, wouldn't you agree it would have been better for the institution and the american people, to schedule the hearing, it's one day. >> thank you. again, i just l...

The minority has asked for a day of hearings on the matter of the december 4th hearing which was the constitutional grounds for impeachment. i am willing to work wutith the minority to schedule such a hearing but not before today's mark-up of the articles of impeachment. the house rule does not require me to schedule a hearing on a particular day, nor does it require me to schedule the hearing as a condition precedent to take anything specific legislative action. otherwise the minority would have the ability to delay or block majority legislative action which is clearly not the purpose of the ...

Foundation if they actually do articles of impeachment. certainly as a condition precedent, they need to ushissu subpoenas. they can go to court quickly to issue subpoenas, but they have to get it on track. the court may move along quick quickly. >> i just want to make a point of the building blocks of the case here, the handful of lower level state department officials are critical of this issue. what did giuliani do? who helped him in the government? what did they know about it? were they nervous about it? did they object to it? is that why the ambassador, for example, was recalled? then the...

Legal jeopardy, my last question to you? >> absolutely. we have a combination of bribery, the foreign corrupt practices act at richl here because we're paying favor of withholding funds and expecting a condition precedent that favors the president favorably before the funds are given and we also have efforts to conceal the very document we had in this conversation by people in the white house. we have the state department involved. we have the justice department involved. this is a major scandal and hopefully by halloween we'll figure out how to identify the articles of impeachment that corres...